All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.